• Otter@lemmy.ca
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      I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

      DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

      This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

      Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

      🙄

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      That’s partly the point. Use words that accurately describe your evil group to incorrectly describe other groups and all of a sudden the words lose meaning and nobody can call you that anymore. Hooray!

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      It never had any meaning. Reagan had them redefine it in a way that didn’t implicate America.

    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      In the UK the term is defined by the government as anyone who is deemed by the government a threat to the government or the people or someone’s property or the predominant local religion. But recently it’s been exclusively used for the first one. In this country state law is valued higher than corporate, moral, ethical and religious laws, so YMMV

      Introduction
      The Terrorism Act 2006 uses the definition of terrorism contained in the Terrorism Act 2000. Section 34 amends that definition slightly, to include specific types of actions against international governmental organisations, such as the UN. The definition in the Terrorism Act 2000 (as amended) states:
      
      1. (1) In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where:
      2. the action falls within subsection (2)
      3. the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public
      4. the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.  
      
      (2) Action falls within this subsection if it:
      
      1. involves serious violence against a person
      2. involves serious damage to property
      3. endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action
      4. creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public
      5. is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system
      
      Section 1(3) to (5) goes on to expand on the effect and extent of this definition.
      

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        It’s so broad, they can accuse anyone of it, and that’s the point. Both parties have long supported these over broad laws too, because they are not on our side, they want the ability to bring the power of the state on the heads of any groups that might not be breaking the law in a way any reasonable person would condemn but still scare those aritstocrats.

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        In the UK it means the cop wants your ID and is willing to pretend your camera is a gun to get it.

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          The UK isn’t the US (at least in this context) almost nobody has guns.

          In very limited situations the police can, but it’s not the norm.

          Don’t get me wrong, ACAB, they just don’t generally use guns a as a pretext, perhaps a knife, or perhaps there is more than an arbitrary number of people grouped together so they can claim an ‘illegal’ protest.

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      It never had meaning. To instill deep fear. Doing violent acts with the purpose of achieving a political end.

      It’s always been super broad and just waiting for a domestic party to adopt the tactics of Israel’s occupied territories here in the US, that’s where this was always heading.